Latest Asa Butterfield Quotes from Interviews

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• I think that a lot of the time I don't go for something in particular. I see what comes to me, I filter it out. I never really strive to play a particular character or do a particular genre of film. As long as it's a good script and a great range of people and my character is really interesting I can't see any reason not to do it.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I still get star-struck by people like Harrison Ford, but I think it's become more natural and more a part of my life. You have to be professional and keep a straight face. You can squeal behind their backs.

  Asa Butterfield

  Thinking, People, Natural

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• TV and film both attract me equally. In both, you do search for a role that would be enjoyable to do, that has a great storyline and then, secondly, you look at the cast and the crew - are they respectable? How I look at it is my character - has the character got enough substance? It can't just be a one faced character, which is there to fill a gap. He has to have a purpose, so if it ticks all of those boxes then generally it's a good choice.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Choices, Purpose

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• The first time I met Harrison, I think, was at the very first read through of the script. As anyone would be, I was a bit nervous before meeting him. I mean, it's Han Solo, so it was quite crazy. But once you get to know him, he really is such an amazing person. He's such an amazing actor as well. As I said before, his presence really does get the best out of you as an actor.

  Asa Butterfield

  Crazy, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• It's kind of hard to enjoy the film when you are watching yourself the whole time. But you do get on with it and try and appreciate everything else about the movie. At least that's what I do. It depends on how fresh in my memory the whole experience is.

  Asa Butterfield

  Memories, Appreciate, Trying

  Source: www.justjared.com

• My older movies, I find easier to watch.

  Asa Butterfield

  Watches, Easier

  Source: www.justjared.com

• I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

  Asa Butterfield

  Proud, Alphabet, Type

  Source: www.justjared.com

• I play a lot of strategy games and team and reactionary games. So it's a different sort of skill that you're practicing.

  Asa Butterfield

  Team, Games, Play

  Source: www.justjared.com

• I've always played games. I've been brought up around gaming.

  Asa Butterfield

  Games, Gaming

  Source: www.justjared.com

• I've had a lot of consoles as a kid so there has always been something that I've done as a pastime or with friends and for personal enjoyment. I don't play many sports so it gives me an opportunity to have that same competitive feeling and the same reward when you win but using different techniques. It's much more mental.

  Asa Butterfield

  Sports, Kids, Winning

  Source: www.justjared.com

• I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.

  Asa Butterfield

  Photography, Taken, School

  Source: www.justjared.com

• The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice.

  Asa Butterfield

  Taken, Practice, Interesting

  Source: www.justjared.com

• Doing things that allow you to learn something are great and I love when you have an opportunity to discover a whole new part of the world.

  Asa Butterfield

  Opportunity, World, Whole

  Source: www.justjared.com

• I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.

  Asa Butterfield

  Haircuts

  Source: www.justjared.com

• I like to keep a broad scope and read lots of different things with lots of different types of characters. Doing that is going to help develop me as an actor; you push yourself.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Different, Actors

  Source: www.justjared.com

• Doing something different, doing something original is always fun because there is a lot of creativity that comes with it.

  Asa Butterfield

  Fun, Creativity, Different

  Source: www.justjared.com

• I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

  Asa Butterfield

  Focus, Trying

  Source: www.justjared.com

• I don't like to look for anything in particular.

  Asa Butterfield

  Looks, Particular

  Source: www.justjared.com

• I don't really have any dream roles. It's just things, which come up.

  Asa Butterfield

  Dream, Roles, Come Up

  Source: www.justjared.com

• I managed to stay grounded and when I wasn't working, I was hanging out with my friends so I was still able to be a kid and have that part of my life. I didn't let acting take over completely.

  Asa Butterfield

  Kids, Acting, Able

  Source: www.justjared.com

• When you're younger, you get scripts that you are too young for and now I'm getting scripts, which I think, "I'm too old for this character." They can always shift things around to make it work and make the ages work. But I'm definitely getting more complex and interesting roles and less what you would expect. So I can experiment more and have a bit more freedom when I'm putting things on tape.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.justjared.com

• For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I had the novel to refer to. It's always really helpful to have all of that information and all of those hundreds more words which give you an idea into the background and your character and all.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Ideas, Giving

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I think it's always difficult no matter how similar your characters are to yourself to get into that mindset, because however much they are similar to you, they're not you.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Thinking, Matter

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a verbal agreement, but we both understood that because there was this constant tension between our characters, we couldn't say "Cut" and start acting normal. We had to keep an essence of that relationship in our characters off screen which is really important.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Cutting, Agreement

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I think a lot of that is what helped me develop my character. I wouldn't say it was Method, but it was definitely a little more in depth than I've done before in terms of acting. With the other kids, we all were such good friends by the time we started shooting. Because of that, it allowed us to trust each other more to push the dynamics of the relationship to places which you might not be able to had you not trusted that person.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Kids, Good Friend

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca